Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding

[Óscar Fuentes]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> I have no idea, which is why this feature will be off by default until I
>> feel confident it won't get in anyone's way.
>
> How regrettable would be to disable such a useful feature.  I'm using
> char-folding every day a dozen times on multiple languages/scripts in
> Chromium, and it's a major inconvenience not to be able to use the same
> in Emacs.

Is there something that prevents you from enabling the feature on your
setup?

> Let's not hide/postpone this feature due to an inability to
> reach a consensus on the default values - we could use the same defaults
> as in Chromium.

Just checked. Chromium has the n/ñ bug. Chrome doesn't.

> These are sane defaults based on Unicode standards

Unicode doesn't have a saying on what is correct on any given language.

> and used by millions users.

Do you have statistics about Chromium users who take advantage of
character folding?

> I haven't noticed any annoying matching by the
> default rules despite not being able to change hard-coded rules or disable
> char-folding.

Possibly the languagues you use do not collide with naïve character
composition rules, or you ignore them or simply don't care about such
rules.

> Unlike Chromium, Emacs is more extensible and customizable,
> thus we urgently need to provide customization, so everyone could easily
> add/remove char-folding rules to/from the default set.

It is reasonable to expect from a serious text editor that when you
search for a letter it finds that letter, not unrelated letters. With
the default configuration, of course.